On Sat, Feb 08, 2003 at 05:14:01PM -0700, Bob Proulx wrote: > Running lintian on the resulting .deb results in the following output. > I know this is coming from the fields module of lintian. But I got > lost in the perl. > > W: myserverbundle: virtual-package-depends-without-real-package-depends > rsh-client
Use the -i switch to lintian. N: N: The package declares a depends on a virtual package without listing a N: real package as an alternative first. N: N: A real package should be listed in the first part of the | dependency N: in order for the package to be installable by package management N: programs that can't or won't guess which alternative to select by N: default. In particular, it helps build daemons rebuild the package N: without manual overrides. N: N: Refer to Policy Manual, section 7.4 for details. N: > Why does it think rsh-client is a virtual package? It is a mixed virtual package. There is a real package rsh-client, but also several other packages provide rsh-client (apt-cache showpkg rsh-client). This may be a false positive, since you should not need an alternative for mixed virtual packages. -- - mdz
